Your Worst City Manager Since You Became A Blue ?

[Thatchersforearm]

Alan Ball. Which other Premier League Manager could come close to signing shat like Gerry Creaney, Micheal Frontzeck, Martin Phillips, Nigel Clough and Mikhail Kavelashvilli in the SAME season. Franny Lee has a hell of a lot to answer for.

 

[Billy City]

Alan Ball. Which other Premier League Manager could come close to signing shat like Gerry Creaney, Micheal Frontzeck, Martin Phillips, Nigel Clough and Mikhail Kavelashvilli in the SAME season. Franny Lee has a hell of a lot to answer for.

How can you say that when the great man said Martin buster Phillips will be the 1st 10 million pound player lol.

 

[Marvin]

Ball for me too. Though I remember some truly shocking football under Frank Clark just before Joe Royle took over. A game away at Port Vale sticks in the mind. Every time the ball came in to the away end, it miraculously disappeared.

Jesus, don't remind me. Lost 2-1 if I remember rightly, games like that were horrendous, we used to laugh at ourselves but in 97/98 it truely was beyond a joke.
Clark's team played awful football, the worst game I've ever seen was a 0-0 away at Oxford.

Don't even Clark can be as bad as Ball though. Should've sacked him right after that Liverpool game and his post match comments.

If Joe Royle had been appointed earlier he'd have kept us up - but then us fans would not have had the opportunity to show our mettle, and the Sheikh may not have taken us over.

Perhaps it was for the best, but it was a nightmare at the time. Coming back was more than good. What a rollercoaaster. Every fan thinks their team is special, and puts them through the wringer, but we really have been put through it more than most

 

[darrenwassall]

Ball for me too. Though I remember some truly shocking football under Frank Clark just before Joe Royle took over. A game away at Port Vale sticks in the mind. Every time the ball came in to the away end, it miraculously disappeared.

Jesus, don't remind me. Lost 2-1 if I remember rightly, games like that were horrendous, we used to laugh at ourselves but in 97/98 it truely was beyond a joke.
Clark's team played awful football, the worst game I've ever seen was a 0-0 away at Oxford.

Don't even Clark can be as bad as Ball though. Should've sacked him right after that Liverpool game and his post match comments.

agree,one of his post match comments went something like "after the 4th goal went in,all you could do was sit back and enjoy it"
the prick should have resigned for that comment alone

 

[reddishblue]

Allison in his 2nd period was a disastrous move, and I have not forgiven him for the sale of Peter Barnes

I also blamed him for the downturn in Gary Owens career, who I thought would go on to great things. I remember seeing him take Leeds apart at Elland Road, ran rings round the likes of Bremner and Giles that day at the age of 18 if my memory serves me correctly. However, we did still compete in those days even though Allison's ego did get in the way.

For me though it has to be Alan Ball. We were losing 6-0 at Anfield and the City fans started singing "we want 7". He then went on to praise Liverpool on TV saying how good they were and how nobody "could have competed with them" etc. Arsehole of the highest order. Just how many teams did he relegate. I remember Stoke, Portsmothe (twice I think), Exeter and City. There is probably more but the names escape me just now.

Anyone remeber Steve Daly or Martin 'Buster' Phillips?

 

[jay-lofty]

If we can't say Alan Ball then Steve Coppell

 

[jimharri]

will take stick but Allison second time around put us back 15 years.

Just tightening the strap on my tin hat!!!

Close; the second "Big Mal" incarnation is number 2 on my list. He damned near bankrupted us, backed all the way by Swales. Top of the list though, has to be Alan Fucking Ball. He couldn't manage a piss up in a brewery. How many relegations did he have on his CV; 5? 6?

 

[allan harper]

Alan Ball. Which other Premier League Manager could come close to signing shat like Gerry Creaney, Micheal Frontzeck, Martin Phillips, Nigel Clough and Mikhail Kavelashvilli in the SAME season. Franny Lee has a hell of a lot to answer for.

How can you say that when the great man said Martin buster Phillips will be the 1st 10 million pound player lol.

Remember when city brought a young team to play lancaster and he was playing, what ever happened to buster. Id struggle to name all the managers City have had since i started following them but id after say Alan Ball is the worse i can remember...

 

[jimharri]

Id struggle to name all the managers City have had since i started following them but id after say Alan Ball is the worse i can remember...

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Read it and weep!

 

[BL2blue]

Definitely Frank Clark, by a country mile. Absolutely, totally and utterly clueless and at the time I was happy when we got him! Doh

2nd worst = Malcolm Allison & Peter Reid. Malcolm was a fantastic coach (which he proved at City) but a disaster waiting to happen as a manager, which again he proved at City! Set the club back many years.

2nd worst = Peter Reid. Took over Kendal's 5th place team then dismantled whilst spending all our money (alot more than Utd at the time who came 6th...), playing long ball tactics, came 9th (somehow) and was on the way to taking us down. Again, set the club back a long, long time. Look at his record since...